A duo of residential towers has been proposed near the Ontario Science Centre and one of the future stations on the Ontario Line, a major provincial transportation project that broke ground last month.
In late March, a rezoning and Site Plan Approval application was submitted to the City of Toronto to construct a 43- and 41-storey high-rise development at 48 Grenoble Drive in North York’s Flemingdon Park neighbourhood.
The development site is located on the northwest corner of Grenoble Drive and Deauville Lane, just east of Don Mills Road and Gateway Boulevard which will be the future home of the planned Flemingdon Park Station on the Ontario Line. The Ontario Science Centre is situated just northwest of the site near Don Mills Road and St Dennis drive. Spanning 1.67 acres, the irregularly-shaped lot is occupied by a nine-storey slab-style rental apartment building with 109 units.
The new development comprises a 43-storey west tower and a 41-storey east tower joined together by a six-storey podium. In a LinkedIn post, vice president of Tenblock, Stephen Job, said that the tower’s architecture by Diamond Schmitt features “restrained, light-coloured masonry that responds to Flemingdon Park’s modernist legacy.
Three entrances are provided in the project, one onto Grenoble Drive in the west tower, an entrance in the east tower onto Deauville Lane and another in the shared podium. Each lobby will provide access to indoor amenity space, mail and parcel rooms, and elevators.
Of the total 993 units proposed in the towers, the breakdown would entail 109 rental replacement homes, including 50 one-bedroom and 59 two-bedroom suites. The remaining 884 units would be organized by 566 one-bedroom, 225 two-bedroom and 83 three-bedroom suites, plus 10 two-storey, three-bedroom townhomes.
The proposal includes a 676 square-metre parkland dedication on the west side of the property . The 10 townhomes would face out onto this green space. Each townhome unit would be accessible by an internal corridor located on the building’s ground floor.
A 490 square-metre Privately Owned Publicly Accessible Space (POPS) is proposed in the site’s southeast area and would be integrated with the sidewalk. The POPS would feature articulated
hardscaping, new plants, seating areas and a public art feature.
A total of 3,988 square metres of indoor and outdoor amenity space is located throughout the development, including on the ground and sixth floors. At the rear of the podium, an outdoor area dedicated for the podium units would provide access to barbecue stations, picnic tables, lounge seating, a children’s play area, a fire pit and bocce ball court. Two outdoor amenity terraces located on the seventh floor would also be constructed, one for each tower.
The towers would share a four-level underground parking garage with 525 spaces, accessible via a driveway from Deauville Lane. A total of 1,094 bicycle parking spots are also proposed for the project, 894 of which will be set aside for long-term use on the garage’s first and second floors. The remaining 200 bicycle spaces are for short-term use, and located at the main lobby entrances of each tower and the podium building.
In the neighbourhood, Crest at Crosstown is under construction, while registration is open for Metro Park Condos.
